The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850Princeton University Press, 9 de febr. 2009 - 176 pàgines American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? |
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... John Carter Brown Library and the John Hay Library. Brown also provided me with these truly unique research facilities, staffed with experts to guide me to the most wonderful material. A portion of Chapter Three appeared in a previous ...
... John Adams felt the need to ask, “Is there not something extremely fallacious in the common-place images of mother country and children colonies? Are we the children of Great Britain any more than the cities of London, Exeter, and Bath ...
... John de Cre`vecoeur's “What is an American” (Letter III, Letters From an American Farmer) as the delineation of a new national culture. Despite the many helpful insights to be gained from recent attempts to compare the literature of the ...
... John Newbery, others abridged versions of novels such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa Harlowe” (391). “One surprising consequence of American independence from the British Empire,” write David Hall 11 DIASPORA AND EMPIRE.
... John Trumbull's “Prospect of the Future Glory of America” (1770), Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Philip Freneau's Rising Glory of America (1771), the version Freneau rewrote after the Revolution, Timothy Dwight's America (1780), David ...
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Writing English in America | 19 |
The Sentimental Libertine | 43 |
The Heart of Masculinity | 73 |
The Gothic in Diaspora | 94 |
Afterword From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony | 118 |
Notes | 129 |
Index | 153 |
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